By the middle of the 16th century the problems of religious disunity resulting from the spread of Protestantism and of peasant discontent had also become acute in Livonia.
Calls for unity are meaningless without first spelling out on what basis people should unite and working out where the disunity came from in the first place.
A picture of disunity comes from the members of the so-called Stanford School, e.g., John Dupré, Ian Hacking, Peter Galison, Patrick Suppes and Nancy Cartwright.
Obama had simply picked up the political signs about the disunity among evangelicals from the 2006 mid-term elections.
From 206 BC onwards the only opposition to Roman control of the peninsula came from within the native Celtiberian tribes themselves, whose disunity prevented their security from Roman expansion.
Even then, it resulted from a disunity to which Chile never succumbed.
For the next 150 years Poland suffered from increasing disunity and disintegration, aggravated by dynastic struggles and civil wars, foreign intervention and invasion, and the secession and conquest of its border regions.
That did not escape the notice of the press and, to protests from Italy's Greens, who also belong to the Union, Mr Prodi said it would go ahead at all costs.The episode left a worrying impression of disunity, and distracted attention from the nub of the programme a thoughtful analysis of Italy's economic decline and a programme for reversing it.
Citing examples of the political evils that had resulted in the past from aristocratic disunity at the death of a monarch, he laid down a precise law of succession, specifying an exact order of precedence to be observed in the selection of a new ruler.
I just don't see how the unity of purpose the president says he is seeking will come from the disunity of rhetoric he ended up offering to a fractured and unsettled polity.
